"Hiss~" Lu Su took a deep breath and was shocked by the exact same handwriting in the two books and by this book with more than 10,000 words, "How much does this cost?"
"The more copies you have, the cheaper the average price will be. If it's just the two copies you have, they probably won't be much cheaper than the only copy." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said.
"Then it can't be promoted." Lu Su sighed and said.
"But if you get thousands of volumes, it will be much cheaper than the slips." Chen Xi said nonchalantly.
"Hey, why are there still typos here? Why don't you correct it?" Lu Su looked at the word "traditional" on it and it was obvious that there was an extra stroke. As for what Chen Xi said, he didn't understand it yet, or it didn't enter his brain.
"It's too troublesome. If you make a mistake, you're wrong." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "It's not good to do it quickly, and the people who made this thing are illiterate craftsmen, so it can only be like this. Besides, one or two If the wording is wrong, it is wrong. Be tolerant and understand. This thing is much better than the letter. "
Chen Xi's understanding of tolerance is entirely because the craftsman is illiterate and can only reverse what he wrote and engrave it, and since he engraves a whole page at a time, if he makes a mistake, he has to re-engrave it all, so as long as it is not a keyword, and If there was no more than one word wrong in the first edition, Chen Xi would just pretend he didn't see it.
As for movable type printing, Chen Xi said that he has no such ability at all. Craftsman skills are the problem, materials are the problem, and he is also the problem. There are problems up and down, so what should we do? It's not as good as engraving. Anyway, it's all about social progress. Stone carving is not good, wood carving is not good, and wood carving is not good for gold and stone hollowing. Anyway, this technology can be used by China in the Shang Dynasty, and there is no pressure at all.
"That's true, when there are errors and omissions in copying." Lu Su nodded and said, "But if the handwriting, errors and omissions are the same, it will be easy for others to find the problem."
"Just discover it if you find it. Whoever has used seals since ancient times doesn't know about this, but who has the paper to do such a thing?" Chen Xi smiled nonchalantly. China has been doing this kind of seal for thousands of years. How can it be done? I do not know how it is? It¡¯s okay if you don¡¯t have enough technology to use movable type printing. If you can¡¯t even use engraving, are you kidding me?
To put it bluntly, if someone could come up with paper that could be popularized in the Shang Dynasty, then someone would be able to come up with engraving and printing within a few days. This can be said to be instinctive.
"Can you control the source?" Lu Su frowned, "If you can control it, you can use this as an enlightenment book. In this way, you can probably achieve the purpose of mass-producing civil servants as you mentioned. Since ancient times, there have been good scholars who have no books to read. , how many geniuses in the world have been lost to everyone because of this, it is impossible to count, and if you give them a chance now, they will definitely repay you. From this, in ten years, as long as ten years, Xuande Gong can fight the world alone and win. Negative is also unknown.¡±
"But we can't take action now." Chen Xi said with a wry smile, "I don't want to antagonize the aristocratic family now. If we really issue the book, it will only make the aristocratic family fight with us. Wisdom and land will never decline. Even if one day the land property There is no value in being out there, but no country dares to abandon land. It will only become a castle in the air. As for wisdom, this is the foundation of the country. "
"What about you?" Lu Su also understood this. The previous test was just to test whether Chen Xi was dazzled by the huge achievements. What reassured him was that even with this huge body in front of him, Chen Xi still maintains the rationality of a wise man.
"Sell it, a book costs a hundred gold. After all, this is a book with a thousand words. Even if it is based on the price of bamboo slips, it is worth a thousand gold. In addition to its portability, it is rare and a book worth a hundred gold is not expensive." Chen Xi said casually.
An industry that robs money, this is an industry that robs money, and in this era where knowledge is more valuable than life and money is like dirt, as long as you dare to sell it, aristocratic families can eat as much as you have. I am always afraid that I don¡¯t have enough knowledge, and I cherish it. When has the family ever sold off its knowledge?
Since ancient times, when scholars had no money and encountered good books, they exchanged land and manors for letters. The Chinese people have done it countless times. As long as you have books and are willing to sell them, and you can choose whatever land, money, food, slaves, and singers you want. This is absolute. hard currency.
But since the Spring and Autumn Period, I have never heard of anyone selling books. Of course, there are no bookstores. Most of them are gifts. According to the ancient scholars, it seems a bit immoral
"Hundred gold?" Lu Su took a rough look and saw that this piece of small regular script contained almost a hundred words, printed on a single page, and the number on the back cover was ninety-nine. It was true that there was no fraud in the ten thousand words, so he nodded and said, " If I had seen this book before, I would have exchanged it for a thousand pieces of gold, and I think others would do the same. Zichuan's price is fair, and it is also for the benefit of scholars like us."
"Okay, from now on, this ninety-nine-page book will be sold for one thousand gold as Zijing said. The ninety-nine pages in the book will show that the number nine is one, and there is a flaw in the way of heaven."??Takeaway means we only made money from the last page, which is considered travel expenses. "Chen Xi explained expressionlessly, and by the way, he booked Lu Su into this book. If anyone thinks death is expensive, they can go talk to Lu Su.
"This method is very good, but I am not worthy of receiving such a gift without even a single step of merit" Lu Su is indeed a benevolent gentleman. He feels that he is just a suggestion. In the end, he accepts a big gift like this and takes too much advantage.
"Nothing, if you're interested, you can write something and I'll print it out for you." Chen Xi Ruowuqi said, and by the way, he gave Lu Su a grand prize.
"Since I am so ashamed to accept it, but I still ask Zichuan to take back the words he wrote in the book, Su Zhi may not be able to do it." Lu Su said with a wry smile, but the light radiating from his eyes could not conceal his eagerness to try.
Well, Chen Xi snickered, and he was already overjoyed. He knew that in this era, absolutely no one could stop the ultimate goal of writing a book. Even if he declined, he couldn't give up in his heart. No matter who wrote the book, As long as it can be written and spread, people will read it.
In this era, those who dare to write books and establish opinions are basically a generation of great scholars, and it can be said that they are already famous all over the world. Writing a book and distributing it basically means that they want to reach the top.
But the sad thing is that these people's books are all for copying, and the quantity is very small. It is impossible for everyone to have one copy, so it is very difficult to publish a book. Let's not talk about ability. You have to be able to distribute it in quantity. , the great scholar had a group of disciples to copy it, do you have any? People have been deleting it for more than ten years because they are worried that it will be troublesome when others copy it, so they try to keep it as simple as possible.
" Nowadays, Chen Xi's mindless printing is much better. If he says he will publish a book for you, he will publish it for you. A thousand copies are not enough, so he only sells 10,000 copies. Even Zhao Yun can't resist it.
It is said that Chen Xi was bored one day and asked Zhao Yun to write down the records of the farming, and then he would compile it into a book when he had time. In the future, other people would just follow the steps when doing it. Zhao Yun was so excited at the time that he didn't know where to go with his hands and feet. Let go.
Chen Xi understood in an instant what it meant to famous people to write books in this era. This was the magic trick to abduct famous officials. He didn't believe it. Various books with a hundred thousand words were blocked at the door of Xun's house, plus Publish a book for Xun Shuang, but he doesn't believe that the Xun family won't give it to him.
ps: Twenty taels in the Han Dynasty were one gold, and one quarter of a tael was one baht, so one gold was equal to 24 baht ¡Á 20 taels, which is 480 baht. One copper coin was five baht, that is, one gold coin. It should be 96 five-baht coins. If you think there is something wrong, you can check the "Historical Records Pingzhunshu". I just want to say that what I sell is not expensive